Amend CSSB 1 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering the remaining sections of the bill accordingly: SECTION ____. Subchapter C, Chapter 16, Water Code, is amended by adding Section 16.059 to read as follows: Sec. 16.059. CHANGES IN ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, OR CONSERVATION OF CERTAIN WATER RESOURCES. (a) The purpose of this section is to allow water districts to provide for the orderly development, management, and conservation of water resources, to ensure that sufficient water will be available at a reasonable cost to ensure public health, safety, and welfare, and to protect the agricultural and natural resources of this state. (b) A district may adopt a comprehensive water plan for the provision of water in the district. The plan may outline the district management plan, including any plans for the orderly development, management, and conservation of water resources. The district may submit the plan to a regional water planning group under Section 16.053 or the board under Section 16.051. (c) If a political subdivision seeks to take an action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan, the political subdivision shall, not later than the 100th day before the date of the action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan, inform the governing body of the district, in writing, of the political subdivision's intention. (d) The governing body of the district, on receipt of the notice, shall conduct an election on the issue of whether the action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan may be imposed in the district. The election must be conducted, in accordance with Chapter 41, Election Code, not later than the 10th day before the date of the institution of the proceeding described by the written notice in Subsection (c). (e) The ballot proposition for an election under this section must be printed to permit voting for or against the imposition of the action by the political subdivision in the specified part of the district. All voters in the district may vote on the proposition. (f) If a majority of voters voting at the election approve the proposition, the action described by the written notice in Subsection (c) may be instituted at any time before the second anniversary after the date of the election. If a majority of voters voting at the election disapprove the proposition, the political subdivision may not institute the action in the district and may not propose an action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan until the second anniversary after the date of the election. (g) In this section: (1) The term "political subdivision" does not include a county, county development district, junior college district, school district, hospital district, nonprofit water supply corporation, municipal management district, emergency service district, rural fire prevention district, or district or authority that exercises the powers granted by Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. (2) "An action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan" means the institution of a proceeding having the purpose or the effect of imposing a tax or fee, including a fee charged for the provision of water, on a person, property, or transaction in any part of a district. (3) "District" means a district established or operated under Title 4. (h) This section applies only to a political subdivision that is, or is located in any part in, a municipality with a population of 1.6 million or more or that is located in any part in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality. SECTION ____. (A) Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, applies to an action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan that is imposed by a political subdivision on or after the effective date of this Act. An action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan that is imposed by a political subdivision before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. (b) Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a new action that has an impact on the district's comprehensive water plan but does not apply to: (1) a tax or fee imposed in a district affected by Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, by a political subdivision that levied taxes on the property in the district before the effective date of that section; (2) a tax or fee imposed in a district by a political subdivision that was, at an election held within the district affected by Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, authorized to levy taxes on property in the district; (3) any change in the amount of an existing tax or fee imposed by a political subdivision in a district affected by Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, including utility rates imposed by a political subdivision; (4) a fee, including utility rates, imposed in a district affected by Section 16.059, Water Code, as added by this Act, by a political subdivision under a contract between the political subdivision and the district; or (5) a fee authorized to be charged by a statute or by an enabling act of a political subdivision. (c) A tax or fee imposed by a political subdivision before the effective date of this Act and after May 1, 1997 may not be collected after the effective date of this Act unless the political Subdivision complies with the provisions of Section 16.059, Water Code, as amended by this Act.